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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit ...
The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition [1] to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Barbadian Friend William Leddra, who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659, 1660 and 1661.
William Dyer was baptized at Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 September 1609, the son of William Dyer. [1] In 1625, while a teenager, he was apprenticed to Walter Blackborne, a fishmonger, and 16 years later, while he was in New England, he was taxed back in England as a member of the "Fishmonger's Company," though his profession before leaving there was that of a milliner. [1]
St. George Tucker Hall is an academic building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.Built in 1908–1909 from a design by Cady & See, it was William & Mary's first freestanding library and sits on what is now known as Old Campus.
William Dyre (1640-1688) was born in Newport, Rhode Island, who served as the 13th Mayor of New York City from October 30, 1680 until 1682. [1] He was a son of the Quaker martyr Mary Dyer and William Dyer .
[3] [1] Both William and Mary researched and published about the French and Indian War and to the history of Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley thereby acquiring a large amount of material on the subjects. [4] Mr. Darlington died in 1889, his wife Mary, continued to acquire materials since she also had an interest in history and art.
A photo of Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer, who served in Detroit Police Department's narcotics unit working with Mayor Coleman Young in 1976, in his office at the Christopher M. Wouters ...
John Copeland rejoined Holder in Rhode Island, and they decided to return to Cape Cod. There were now 15 active Quaker missionaries in the American colonies: the original 11 who sailed on the Woodhouse, Mary Dyer from Rhode Island, and three more from the Barbados, one of whom was the future martyr, William Leddra. [37]